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    Cover of Facts and Figures About the Middle East
    Chil­dren’s
    Facts and Fig­ures About the Mid­dle East
    Lisa McCoy
    Cover of Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations
    Non­fic­tion
    Pro­files in Ter­ror: The Guide to Mid­dle East Ter­ror­ist Organizations
    Aaron Mannes
    Essay

    A Hid­den History

    Ear­li­er this week Mat­ti Fried­man, a reporter in Jerusalem for the Times of Israel, and author of The Alep­po Codex, wrote about the codex vs. the Kin­dle. He…
    Mat­ti Friedman
    July 18, 2012
    Cover of The Making of the Middle East
    Chil­dren’s
    The Mak­ing of the Mid­dle East
    David Downing
    Cover of The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution
    Non­fic­tion
    The State of the Mid­dle East: An Atlas of Con­flict and Resolution
    Dan Smith
    Cover of To Be An Arab in Israel
    Non­fic­tion
    To Be An Arab in Israel
    Laurence Louer
    Cover of Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Failure in the Middle East
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    Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Fail­ure in the Mid­dle East
    Mark Matthews
    Cover of Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined
    Non­fic­tion
    Jews and Mus­lims in the Arab World: Haunt­ed by Pasts Real and Imagined
    Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen
    Cover of Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad
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    Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
    Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
    Cover of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine
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    Hamas vs. Fatah: The Strug­gle for Palestine
    Jonathan Schanz­er
    Cover of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate History of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East
    Non­fic­tion
    Inno­cent Abroad: An Inti­mate His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Peace Diplo­ma­cy in the Mid­dle East
    Martin Indyk
    Cover of The Palestinian National Authority
    Non­fic­tion
    The Pales­tin­ian Nation­al Authority
    John C. Hall, Adam Woog, Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.
    Cover of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
    Non­fic­tion
    A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strat­e­gy for Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East
    Kenneth M. Pollack
    Cover of Creation of the Modern Middle East: Israel
    Chil­dren’s
    Cre­ation of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East: Israel
    Louise Chipley Slavicek; Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., ed.
    Cover of Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media
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    Car­toons and Extrem­ism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and West­ern Media
    Joel Kotek
    Cover of The Handbook of the Middle East, rev. ed.
    Non­fic­tion
    The Hand­book of the Mid­dle East, rev. ed.
    Michael B. Kort
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